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Horror/Scary: April 17, 2019 Issue [#9490]




 This week: 'Cos I'm The Taxman
  Edited by: W.D.Wilcox Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
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3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

A tax collector or a taxman is a person who collects unpaid taxes from other people or corporations. Tax collectors are often portrayed in fiction as being evil, and in the modern world share a similar stereotype to that of lawyers.



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Letter from the editor

The Taxman


The Taxman has been around forever. Tax collectors, also known as publicans, are mentioned many times in the Bible (mainly in the New Testament). They were reviled by the Jews of Jesus' day because of their perceived greed and collaboration with the Roman occupiers. Tax collectors amassed personal wealth by demanding tax payments in excess of what Rome levied and keeping the difference. They worked for tax farmers. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus sympathizes with the tax collector Zacchaeus, causing outrage from the crowds that Jesus would rather be the guest of a sinner than of a more respectable or "righteous" person. Matthew the Apostle in the New Testament was a tax collector.

Samuel Adams, one of our Founding Fathers, was a tax collector. He should of stuck to making beer.

Tax Day — a day that more Americans hate than any other — has come and gone. The recent scandals and bureaucratic bungling by the Internal Revenue Service have so angered the public that cries to "Abolish the IRS" trigger enthusiastic applause at political rallies and have become popular bumper stickers all over the country.

In 1914, the U.S. tax code was about the same length as American Sniper or Gone Girl. Now it's grown to almost 74,000 pages — the length of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, if you read it nearly 70 times!

And yes we've heard the horror stories; in fact, many of us know people who have lived these horror stories. In the last two years more than 360,000 taxpayers were the victims of a scam involving fake IRS agents who threatened consumers and conned their victims out of over $15 million.

Until next Tax Day,



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If none of these book were best sellers, or popular, would their first lines have made a difference? Are all books, sitting on shelves not being chosen or gathering dust because they don't have a brilliant first line? I looked at some of the above and they aren't so outstanding in themselves. It's what followed that hooked the reader to say "I love this book!" Nope, I don't throw a book down because it didn't have an attention grabbing first line or first paragraph. It was the theme in the first few pages that hooked me to continue. I did, however, almost throw a book out the train window when the first 3 paragraphs of the book were inundated with the words "was", "went" and "gone" I read the word "was" five times in one paragraph. That is my pet peeve.

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You are so welcome my friend.

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